How To Grant Access to your Gmail Account to Others (Gmail Delegation)

Want to grant access to your Gmail account with your partner without sharing the password? Yes, In Gmail you can grant access to your account to any other person and that person can read, send, delete emails & manage your Gmail account on your behalf.

If you don’t prefer to share your Gmail account password and also want to give access, this is the best option for you. Account Delegation in Gmail will help you for granting access to some extent and you can revoke this access anytime whenever you want in a single click. Let’ see how to delegate Gmail Account?

Gmail Delegation: Grant Access to your Gmail Account to Others

You can delegate your Gmail account to anyone who has an email address with “@gmail.com“, means that person must have a Google Account. Thorugh the delegated Gmail account, only emails along with basic settings can be managed. Main Account Settings will not be visible to the delegated Gmail account.

Person Getting Access to Your Gmail Account

Now a confirmation mail with a ‘Accept the request link‘ will be sent to that person as shown in below image:

After accepting this request that person will be having Access to your Gmail Account. It may take upto 30 minutes to delegate the access to that person. Once done, that person can see the delegated Gmail account in his Account list: